Baseball Bats!?

[Venga]

Pretty strange topic i know, but i have to do a project on a Baseball Bat so i came to BG for some inspiration.

Im thinking of going along the line of baseball bat as a weapon. For example, Baseball Bat Vs Zombies.

The project can basically be whatever i want, just has to have some relevance to baseball bats. Any ideas BG? Or any ideas where bats have been used in zombie games / films?

Any other baseball bat facts would be greatly appreciated too.

Thanks in advance!

[kuronosan]

Um, baseball bats have been used in just about every zombie game and film, it's almost impossible to make a full list.

Zombieland, Dawn of the Dead, Dead Rising, I mean... you could google this pretty easily.

[Reality]

Research the dilemma Major League Baseball is having with shattering Maple Bats, and injury concerns, reasons why they won't adopt a league-wide ban on Maple, and instead force players to use Oak bats instead

You could also research the build quality of Maple bats, because they didn't always break/shatter like they are now

Or, zombie stuff.

[Absolutely Virtue]

If you do your paper on the safety of wooden bats versus aluminum bats, it writes itself. Lots of research out there to cite.

Basically youth and college leagues in America use aluminum bats, and the ball comes off the bat significantly faster (and you can swing them harder), putting kids' health at risk. So people advocate for switching back to wood to protect the kids.

Or, you could look at the crazy stuff players put in bats to try to make them better:

Corked bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Suited Aces]

Research the dilemma Major League Baseball is having with shattering Maple Bats, and injury concerns, reasons why they won't adopt a league-wide ban on Maple, and instead force players to use Oak bats instead

You could also research the build quality of Maple bats, because they didn't always break/shatter like they are now

There's a few theories about this.

One is that since kids grow up using aluminum bats from t-ball thru college, they don't know how to properly swing a wooden bat. Wooden bats are inspected when they are made and the wood is burned with the makers emblem on the side that should face up when you hold it. This ensures that the ball is struck with the wood grain and not against it.


Another theory is that old wooden bats were made with old-growth trees. The core of the tree was much denser. But since trees are being cut and processed much earlier in their lives now, the core doesn't have a chance to compact as much.

[Electro]

Pretty strange topic i know, but i have to do a project on a Baseball Bat so i came to BG for some inspiration.

Im thinking of going along the line of baseball bat as a weapon. For example, Baseball Bat Vs Zombies.

The project can basically be whatever i want, just has to have some relevance to baseball bats. Any ideas BG? Or any ideas where bats have been used in zombie games / films?

Any other baseball bat facts would be greatly appreciated too.

Thanks in advance!

The Zombie Survival Guide
Amazon.com: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (9781400049622): Max Brooks: Books

Read it a few months ago. Was great and now I am prepared.

[Bregor]

Two words: NAIL BAT.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/fi...7_Nail_bat.jpg

[510Meeze]

You can ask why Baseball Bats are even used in Baseball anymore. I can't believe parents grow their kids to cheer on a sport that promotes cheating at all costs, and even rewards cheaters with multi million dollar contracts.

[Avanarius]

You can ask why Baseball Bats are even used in Baseball anymore. I can't believe parents grow their kids to cheer on a sport that promotes cheating at all costs, and even rewards cheaters with multi million dollar contracts.

cheating is subjective within the rules, but I think you just defined every sport.

[Tyche]

I like the off-topic use of a baseball bat as opposed to relating the story to sports =/

[Venga]

Yh so do it, i think ill look into the practical use of the bat in baseball but realistically id prefer to look at killing things with it lol.

I only realised after i posted i could use the scout in TF2! that should be pretty fun to base something around him.

[ferigor]

If you do your paper on the safety of wooden bats versus aluminum bats, it writes itself. Lots of research out there to cite.

Basically youth and college leagues in America use aluminum bats, and the ball comes off the bat significantly faster (and you can swing them harder), putting kids' health at risk. So people advocate for switching back to wood to protect the kids.

There was a really interesting article about this in the newspaper the other day. A court in Helena MT just awarded a family almost $800k because their son was killed by a baseball hit by a Louisville Slugger aluminum bat. I don't agree with the ruling myself, but I agree its a really hot topic, and something that would be able to fill up a few good pages (Was a good read for a slow news day at least).

[aduidarnenye]

The Associated Press: Mont. jury awards $850,000 in aluminum bat lawsuit

HELENA, Mont. — A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.

The family of Brandon Patch argued that aluminum baseball bats are dangerous because they cause the baseball to travel at a greater speed. They contended that their 18-year-old son did not have enough time to react to the ball being struck before it hit him in the head while he was pitching in an American Legion baseball game in Helena in 2003.

The Lewis and Clark County District Court jury awarded a total of $850,000 in damages against Louisville, Ky.,-based Hillerich & Bradsby for failure to place warnings on the product.

The teen's mother, Debbie Patch, was stunned by the verdict. The family rejoiced and cried as the verdict was read.

"We never expected it," she said. "We just hoped we could get the truth out for more people to see."

Patch said she hopes the decision will make more people aware of the dangers associated with aluminum bats and that more youth leagues will switch to using wooden bats.

"We just want to save someone else's life," Patch said.

Attorneys for Hillerich & Bradsby declined to comment. They had argued that accidents are bound to happen in baseball games and there's nothing inherently unsafe about aluminum baseball bats.

A spokesman for the legendary bat-maker said Wednesday the company did nothing wrong and the verdict "appears to be an indictment of the entire sport of baseball."

"We made a bat in accordance with the rules," Rick Redman said. "That bat was approved for play by baseball's organizing and governing organizations."

Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association's Don't Take My Bat Away Program, a sporting goods trade group, said that while Patch's death is tragic, the exact same thing could have happened with a wooden bat.

Curt Drake, one of the family's attorneys, said the jury arrived at the total by awarding $792,000 to Brandon Patch for his lost earnings and pain and suffering, an amount that goes to his estate. The family was awarded $58,000 for their pain and suffering and damages.

Judge Kathy Seeley is still considering punitive damages in the case.

In the verdict Wednesday, the jury also decided the product was not defective. Drake said that decision was not significant, since the jury found it posed a threat without an adequate warning label.

The attorney said the family's victory will not likely change the way aluminum bats are used, but that it could help give momentum to efforts calling for a switch to wood bats in youth baseball.

Metal bats came into vogue in amateur sports in the 1970s, but professional baseball still uses wood bats. Some amateur teams have decided to switch in recent years, in part due to Patch's death.

"We should go back to the way baseball is supposed to be played, the way professional baseball is played," said Debbie Patch.

Brandon Patch was pitching for the Miles City Mavericks when the ball ricocheted off his head, eventually falling behind first base after traveling as high as 50 feet in the air.

Patch went into convulsions on the field in front of a horrified crowd and died within hours from his injury.

His family's lawsuit was one of several in recent years involving aluminum bats made by Hillerich & Bradsby.

Last year, the family of a New Jersey boy who suffered brain damage after he was struck by a line drive off an aluminum Louisville Slugger bat sued the company and others, saying they should have known it was dangerous. Steven Domalewski was 12 when he was struck by the ball in 2006. His family's suit is pending in New Jersey Superior Court.

In 2002, the parents of teenage pitcher Jeremy Brett of Enid, Okla., won a jury verdict against Hillerich & Bradsby and were awarded damages. The couple filed suit after Brett was hit in the head with a ball hit off an aluminum bat made by the company, suffering severe head injuries.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Queue the overprotective parents who's child wears 60 lbs of padding.

[Kazen]

Accidents happen, it's just as much of fault of the makers of the bat as the person who was batting (No ones fault). Just look at how many people die playing football, that's also accidental... shit happens.